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SUBMITTER: Eyice O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5739008 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eyice Özge Ö Myronova Nataliia N Pol Arjan A Carrión Ornella O Todd Jonathan D JD Smith Tom J TJ Gurman Stephen J SJ Cuthbertson Adam A Mazard Sophie S Mennink-Kersten Monique Ash MA Bugg Timothy Dh TD Andersson Karl Kristoffer KK Johnston Andrew Wb AW Op den Camp Huub Jm HJ Schäfer Hendrik H
The ISME journal 20171024 1
Oxidation of methanethiol (MT) is a significant step in the sulfur cycle. MT is an intermediate of metabolism of globally significant organosulfur compounds including dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and dimethylsulfide (DMS), which have key roles in marine carbon and sulfur cycling. In aerobic bacteria, MT is degraded by a MT oxidase (MTO). The enzymatic and genetic basis of MT oxidation have remained poorly characterized. Here, we identify for the first time the MTO enzyme and its encoding ge ...[more]